If You Plan on Leaving, Leave Now with the Leaves

I want to study a tree With you We'll watch it grow Enjoy Its shade. And when Fall comes the air will be cool We'll study the leaves And watch them change.

The leaves will Fall And die And diminish But the branches will hang all year, To provide a home For the leaves Come Spring. And we'll be there Witnessing these things, Studying a tree.

We'll see the roots Create bumps and grooves In the ground Beneath our feet, But we will not move We'll carry on through For maybe one day This tree will bear fruit Besides there wouldn't be a tree Without a tree's roots.

And if you went home I wouldn't mind Because then I'd know there was someone better out there I could find. Someone who would see the greatness The beauty Of studying a tree, And enjoy every moment of it Just to be sitting there With me.

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